Research Team
Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

Manu joined the Bank in November2006. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University. He was an intern at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 2004 and at the International Monetary Fund in 2005. As for relatively long research visits, in 2010 he visited the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and was a consultant at the National Bank of Belgium. Manu is a research associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA).

Current research interests:

• Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
• Inflation Dynamics and Pricing Decisions
• Consumption Dynamics

Selected publications:

• De Veirman, E and Ashley Dunstan (2011): “Time-Varying Returns, Intertemporal Substitution and Cyclical Variation in Consumption”, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Topics), 11, Article 23.

• De Veirman, E (2009): “What Makes the Output-Inflation Trade-Off Change? The Absence of Accelerating Deflation in Japan”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 41, 1117-1140.

• De Veirman, E and Andrew Levin (2011): “Cyclical Changes in Firm Volatility”, under submission. Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2011/06; CAMA Working Paper 29/2011.

• De Veirman, E and Andrew Levin (2011): “When Were Firms Most Similar? Time-Varying Firm-Specific Volatility in Japan”, under submission.

• De Veirman, E and Ashley Dunstan (2011): “Debt Dynamics and Excess Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Wealth Changes”, under submission. Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2010/09.

• De Veirman, E and Felipe Labbé (2011): “Estimating the Effect of Permanent Oil Price Changes without Univariate Assumptions about the Long-Run Oil Price”.

• De Veirman, E and Andrew Coleman (2011): “Price Discounting: Cyclical Properties and Importance for Inflation Dynamics”.

• De Veirman, E and Ashley Dunstan (2011): “Time-Varying Returns, Intertemporal Substitution and Cyclical Variation in Consumption”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion paper 2011/05; CAMA Working Paper 14/2011.

• De Veirman, E and Andrew Levin (2009): “Measuring Changes in Firm-Level Volatility: an Application to Japan”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2009/20.

• De Veirman, E and Ashley Dunstan (2008): “How Do Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth and Consumption Interact? Evidence from New Zealand”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2008/05.

• De Veirman, E (2007): “Which Nonlinearity in the Phillips Curve? The Absence of Accelerating Deflation in Japan”, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2007/14; Johns Hopkins University Economics Working Paper 536.